The Architect King
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Drakoise - a kind of shelled reptile native to the Prime.
Dunnischkte - a religious ritual to gain a hybrid status between vyrm and human.
Dunnischktet – someone who has completed the Dunnischkte; he or she gains nigh immortality and the ability to shift between hybrid, vyrm, and human forms.
Eternal Sky – one of the thirty three dimensions of the multi-verse.
Frostmancer – tarkhūn with special abilities including ice/cold control.
Glrg-worm – a larval kind of predator that is native to the Desolation; they are known for their speed. Though not particularly deadly by themselves, they tend to dwell in groups of hundreds or thousands so they can take larger prey.
Grimmorium Nitthogr – a journal kept by the fallen Veritas cleric Nitthogr; it is an arcane work that is the culmination of all the sorcery he learned in his earlier years before Sh’logath taught him even deeper and viler magics.
Guardian Corps – royal guards tasked with protecting the royal line and also the chamber of mysteries; some corpsmen decide to join the Veritas, a secretive monastic order drawn from their numbers.
Heptobscurantum – human branch of the vyrm’s cult of Sh’logath.
Kortath – The mountain range where rovers made their ancestral home. Their chosen prophet resides in the mountains t await instruction from Maetha.
Lich – tarkhūn with psychic abilities; they are always identified at a young age and pressed into service of the Sh’logath cult.
Limbus – the home to Basilisk, the recognized leader of the Tarkhūn, and the capital of Desolation.
Multiverse – thirty-one connected dimensions that can be travelled via pathways that open up based upon the astral alignment/calendar.
Plains of Neggath - region in Desolation where the Sh’logath cult birthed the great Agod; the area is a veritable wasteland and often the home of Rovers.
The Prime – the main realm of the multiverse: the ultimate reality. It also refers to a person who lives within this realm; each Prime has dimensional copies living on the different realms of the multiverse.
Pyromancer – tarkhūn with special abilities including fire generation and manipulation.
Rovers – unaligned vyrm tribes. They are typically either Seekers of Maetha or Followers of Krakkath, two different theologies that some vyrm adhere to.
The Seven – illuminati-like ruling council of the Heprobscurantum.
Shade – tarkhūn with extreme camouflaging ability; some have even gained the ability to completely shapeshift their forms.
Sharonash - the city where the Syzygyc War ended. Now a wasteland, it features a sort of graveyard where thousands of vyrm warriors were turned to stone by the Architect King in the great battle.
Sh’logath – the Devourer, Nega-God, Agod of Destruction, the Reality Eater… all are names to describe the terror that lurks on the verge of reality.
Straruck – the Holy city in the Neggath region; it has special significance to the vyrm (their religion’s kind of Mecca) and is where the Thousand Elders enacted dark rites that brought Sh’logath to life.
The Syzygyc War – the war that waged many years between the Prime and Desolation as they sought to awaken Shlogath; it was prevented by the Architect King.
Tarkhūn – high caste of vyrm that once ruled their race before a schism led by Nitthogr long ago. They are a rarer, but stronger breed. Some, who resemble member of The Black, have developed additional powers.
Tesseract – a gem created by the Architect King; it is the key to all power in reality and the embodiment of the multiverse.
Thousand Elder’s Sacrifice – the sacrificial torpor they entered into in order to make Sh’logath real via dark rites.
TRX718 – a high powered blaster pistol.
Tyradon – fast, heavily armored battle lizards used by the Tarkhūn military; they are much larger than churdachk, tire less often, and will prey on creatures up to one and a half times their size in the wild.
Voice of the Thousand Elders – the chief Cleric of the Vyrm’s Thousand Elders. He stayed alive and died of old age, although his spirit remains disembodied and tied to the Thousand Elders will.
Vyrm – reptilian humanoid race whose home realm is known as the Desolation.
Dramatis Personae
Akko Soggathoth – An ancient and mischievous demigod released from his prison within the Darque by the Texas Black Goat Cult.
Basilisk – The leader of the tarkhūn. He is the brother of Nitthogr who died at the Nebraska Worldgate incident. He is a Dunnischktet.
Bithia – The Prime version of Claire Jones.
Caivev – A traitor to the Prime who was seduced by Nitthogr. She was once a skilled intelligence officer under Zahaben.
Cerci Heiderscheidt – Walther’s head assistant, she is a scientist in her own right and commands three assistants underneath her.
Charobv – One of Caivev’s generals. He was a skilled sniper and has a warrior son named Chartarra.
Charsk – The vyrm high priest of the Sh’logath cult.
Chartarra – One of Caivev’s assassin-warriors.
Chira – One of Zabe’s Corpsmen; he took over the Royal Army after Harken.
Claire Jones – Just a simple girl from Earth who wound up with the mind and soul of the Prime’s ruler, the daughter of the Architect King, fused to her.
Druen – Leader of the Merciful Hammer in the Veritas and Shandra’s immediate superior.
Gerjha – A prophet of the rovers/Seekers of Maetha, and a cousin of Trenzlr.
Gita – A young recruit for the Guardian Corps and friend of Jackie.
Harken – A local hero who arose during the Black’s occupation; post-Nebraska he rose to lead the Prime’s Royal Army.
Idrakka – A tarkhūn frostmancer secretly sent to infiltrate Caivev's team over a period of years. Secretly he is the brother of the shade, Jarkara.
Jackie – Claire’s best friend who followed her to the Prime. The two are as close as sisters.
Jacob Sisyphus – A former pro wrestler and magic wielder of Earth. He is a member of the Heptobscurantum.
Jarfig – Prime version of Jacob Sisyphus. Captured years ago he is used as a blood bank to boost Sisyphus’s magic abilities.
Jarkara - A shade spy sent by Basilisk. He is one of the more talented shapeshifters and Vivian suspects he was sent as a mole to infiltrate her team. Brother to Idrakka.
Jenner – Professor Jarfig’s son. He was fifteen when he lost his father and is possessed with the singular purpose: to find and rescue his father or punish those who took him.
Kreephast – One of Caivev’s generals. He is a member of the Black, but his disguise skills rival those of a shade (he is also General Nyagittari). He is very religious and well versed in history.
Krenyr the Hunter – One of Nitthogr’s shades. He is at the pinnacle of ability for disguise and can even change his genetic code to match that of his target, when necessary.
Minas – The leader of the Order of the Flame within the Veritas.
Perribelle – Leads the Wax Order of the Veritas.
Pollando – The mute leader of the Order of Mystics within the Veritas. He is a highly trained psychic.
Regorik – Nitthogr’s second in command during the first invasion. He was a tarkhūn apex who shifted allegiances because of his ideology and faith in Sh’logath
Respan – A scientist and R&D expert who works for the Guardian Corps.
Percival Wainsmith – Independently wealthy man with many influences abroad; he has joined the Heptobscurantum’s Seven.
Pietro Walther – A pseudoscience doctor who was originally recruited and equipped by Bruce Cannon.
Sam Jones – Father of Claire Jones. Archaeologist. Widower. Occasional kidnapping victim.
Shandra – A Cleric of Veritas and member of the Merciful Hammer. She is responsible for tracking down ancient artifacts with arcane power.
Shardai – Zabe and Zurrah’s grandfather an
d the father of Zahaben. He was named after Shardai the First who was a child soldier during the Syzygyc War. Shardai originally commanded the Guardian Corps before his son and grandson; he died shortly before the Battle of Nebraska.
Shjikara – High Cleric and leader of the Veritas.
Skrom – Caivev’s behemoth tarkhūn general; he is perhaps even more devoted to her than Regorik was to Nitthogr.
Tahnak – A member of the Guardian Corps whose life was upended while trapped in the Darque dimension. He gained some expertise on darquematter while trapped there, but with a cost.
Tay-lore – A quirky android member of Guardian Corps and last member of the technological homo diurnus race. He is fully devoted to Claire/Bithia. He finds killing highly distasteful—but he would make any sacrifice at his queen’s request.
Theera the Undying – An unkillable servant and personal henchman enthralled and empowered by Akko Soggathoth.
Trenzlr – A Blackborne vyrm and Seeker of Maetha who fell through a portal and into the Prime.
Vikrum Whiltshire – An occult detective from Earth, Tay-lore is often in contact and once hired him to digitize the arcane library found at the Texas Black Goat Cult.
Wulftone – Cousin to Zabe and second in command of the Guardian Corps; he was raised in the same home as Zabe’s brother when his parents died.
Zabe – The son of the great General Zahaben and protector of the Royal Family; he leads the Guardian Corps.
Zurrah – Zabe’s brother who was captured and presumed dead at a young age.
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